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The seaman's sure guide, [electronic resource] : or, navigator's pocket remembrancer: wherein are gi...

The seaman's sure guide, [electronic resource] : or, navigator's pocket remembrancer: wherein are gi...

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The seaman's sure guide, [electronic resource] : or, navigator's pocket remembrancer: wherein are given such plain instructions in every useful branch of navigation, as will in a short time form the complete mariner. Among the variety of essential articles contained in this Work are, The Method of Working Tides, or finding High Water at any Place. - Geometry, and the Doctrine of Plain Triangles. - To make Log-Lines, and correct Distances given by Log when the Glass, Line, or both are faulty. - The various Sailings, with Amplitudes and Azimuths. - To find the Apparent and True Altitudes of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. - The different Methods of finding the Latitude. How to find the Apparent Time at Sea, to Regulate the Watch. - The new Method of finding the Longitude by Sun and Moon, or Moon and a fixed Star. - To rectify Courses; with Rulés for correcting the Dead Reckoning, by an Observation in all Cases. - Exercising Examples of Days Works. - A complete log of a ship's voyage, with Instructions for writing a Journal from the Log Book, &c. &c. Upon an Improved Plan, For the Use of Schools. By J. Bettesworth, Master of the Naval Academy, Chelsea, and late Mathematical Master of the Maritime School.

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The seaman's sure guide, [electronic resource] : or, navigator's pocket remembrancer: wherein are given such plain instructions in every useful branch of navigation, as will in a short time form the complete mariner. Among the variety of essential articles contained in this Work are, The Method of Working Tides, or finding High Water at any Place. - Geometry, and the Doctrine of Plain Triangles. - To make Log-Lines, and correct Distances given by Log when the Glass, Line, or both are faulty. - The various Sailings, with Amplitudes and Azimuths. - To find the Apparent and True Altitudes of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. - The different Methods of finding the Latitude. How to find the Apparent Time at Sea, to Regulate the Watch. - The new Method of finding the Longitude by Sun and Moon, or Moon and a fixed Star. - To rectify Courses; with Rulés for correcting the Dead Reckoning, by an Observation in all Cases. - Exercising Examples of Days Works. - A complete log of a ship's voyage, with Instructions for writing a Journal from the Log Book, &c. &c. Upon an Improved Plan, For the Use of Schools. By J. Bettesworth, Master of the Naval Academy, Chelsea, and late Mathematical Master of the Maritime School.

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London : printed for the author, and S. Hooper, No. 212, High-Holborn, facing Southampton-Street, Bloomsbury-Square; J. Murray, Fleet-Street; and D. Steel, on Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]

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M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]

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74VvQEKlp5pZ

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991014551649702626

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English

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iv,160,[2]p. : ill. ; 12°.

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London : printed for the author, and S. Hooper, No. 212, High-Holborn, facing Southampton-Street, Bloomsbury-Square; J. Murray, Fleet-Street; and D. Steel, on Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]

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England

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M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]

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The seaman's sure guide, [electronic resource] : or, navigator's pocket remembrancer: wherein are given such plain instructions in every useful branch of navigation, as will in a short time form the complete mariner. Among the variety of essential articles contained in this Work are, The Method of Working Tides, or finding High Water at any Place....

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General note

'A log of a ship's voyage, .. in his Majesty's ship the Cumberland: kept by John Diligent' has a separate titlepage; the register and pagination are continuous.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

With a final advertisement leaf.

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ESTC T114215.

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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991014551649702626